Mass displacement and urban resilience
People displaced by conflict and disasters increasingly end up in urban areas. This Working Paper assesses the impact of mass displacement on the wellbeing of all urban residents.
Crescent Beach Community Addresses Coastal Flooding
This report documents the outcomes of a series of meetings with the Crescent Beach community of British Columbia in the summer of 2016 to discuss reponses to sea level rise.
Creating Edinburgh's city-wide action plan
The Edinburgh Adapts project has created a city wide adaptation vision and action plan that is inclusive, innovative and responsive to local priorities. This case study explains how we did it.
RAMSES adaptation in cities project
The RAMSES project is delivering quantified evidence of the impacts of climate change and the costs and benefits of a wide range of adaptation measures, focusing on cities.
Report: Urbanisation, Poverty, Climate Change Vol 1 & 2
This synthesis report showcases the evidence from cities involved in developing the City Resilience Strategy and practical interventions adopted to create urban resilience.
The Road to Resilience guidebook
The book is a guide for urban policy makers and planners to increase the resilience of the world's cities, and provides several bottom-up resilience building options for augmenting urban services.
Addressing flooding in the city of Surat beyond its boundaries
This paper describes the flood risks faced by Surat, India. It also reviews measures being taken to reduce flood risks – and how climate change is likely to affect such risks.
Halifax Regional Municipality
Halifax Regional Municipality, Canada, exists to serve the needs and interests of its citizens.
Metropolitan Planning Council
Since 1934, the Metropolitan Planning Council (MPC) has been dedicated to shaping a more sustainable and prosperous greater Chicago region.
The politics of climate change at the city level - insights from three mega-cities
This Guide summarises the the politics of climate-related decision-making in three Latin American mega-cities: Buenos Aires, São Paulo and Mexico City.
Strengthening disaster risk management in India
This research analyses in detail the state disaster management plans from five very different states (in terms of climate, geography and size): Assam, Bihar, Gujarat, Odisha and Uttarakhand.
Treading low-carbon pathways toward sustainability in Bogor City
The Urban-LEDS project offers Bogor City opportunities to integrate low-carbon strategies in local development plans, supporting a vision of a more liveable city.
Environment Management Centre
Environmental Management Centre (EMC) offers consulting services that take a sustainability focus and are essentially strategic, knowledge driven and suppo
Barriers in municipal climate change adaptation
This study aimed to investigate barriers to successful local climate change adaptation due to lack of support from decision makers in organisations other than the municipality in question.
LEDS in Practice: Breathe clean
This paper presents two case studies from cities that have taken action on air quality to improve public health and have realized the benefits of reduced emissions.
LEDS in Practice: Make roads safe
This paper shares two case studies from cities that have taken action in the transport sector to make their roads safer and have seen the benefits in reduced road fatalities and emissions.
LEDS in Practice: Fight poverty
This paper shares case studies from cities that have taken action in the transport sector to fight poverty and have realized the benefits of reduced emissions from traditional transport options.
LEDS in Practice: Create jobs
This paper shares two case studies from cities that have generated employment by implementing low carbon transport projects.
Gender approaches in climate compatible development: Lessons from India
This policy brief explores the advantages and challenges of integrating a gender dimension into climate compatible development strategies in urban settings, in India.
Plan 4C: A Competitive and Climate Compatible Cartagena
Plan 4C: A Competitive and Climate Compatible Cartagena positions Cartagena as the first coastal city in Colombia to have a long term vision achieve climate compatible development by 2040.
Gender approaches in climate compatible development: Lessons from urban India
This study explores the advantages and challenges of integrating gender dimensions into climate compatible development strategies through looking at a case study in Gorakhpur, India.
Gender approaches in climate compatible development: Lessons from Kenya
This report investigates advantages and challenges of integrating a gender dimension into climate compatible development strategies in urban settings, in Kenya.
Gender approaches in climate compatible development: Lessons from Peru
This report investigates advantages and challenges of integrating a gender dimension into climate compatible development strategies in urban settings, in Peru.
Round-up of the 10th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA10)
This article summarizes the discussions that took place at the CBA10 international conference, which this year had an urban focus, with the theme of ‘enhancing urban community resilience’
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